Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-15
CULL0M WINS HIS POINT.
THE CONFERENCES REPORT ON
FIXING RATES ADOPTED.

tion was agreed to by vote Of 81 yeas TO
IL nays, The nays were Messrs. Blair,
Cameron, Chace, Cheney, Frye, Hawley,
Hoar, Morrill,. Sawyer, Sewell, Sherman
and Spooner. Mr.. Hoar then addressed
The Senate on the bill. Mr.. Hoar eX-
pressed willingness to vote for the bill,
with the exception of the long and short
haul and pooling clauses. He questioned
the correctness OF Senator Harris state
ment that the rejection of the conference
report would be the ehS Of legislation on
the subject at this session, and suggested
that the majority in the House preferred
the Senate bill as originally passed, and
he concluded by saying that the true
policy Of tie Senate was to recOmmit the
bill.
SHERMAN FAvORS RECOMMITTAL.
At 2:30 o'clock Mr.. Sherman took the
floor in favor of recOmmitting the bill.
At $3.50 O'Clock Mr.. Edmunds began
spe e-ch in favor of the bill as it stands,
speaking until 5:l2 O'clock.
At that hour Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, suo-
ceeded Mr.. Edmunds, also in favor OF the
conference bill.
Mr.. Ingalls, came next, at 6:15 O'Clock,
with speech in support of the bill.
During the pro4reSs of these set
SD66CuoS many OJDCf SbUd OTIS lHLcIJ6CLSu
questions and brief comments.
A NORTH CAROLINA DECISION.
Mr.. Brown called attention to the quite
recent decision of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina on the subject of dis
eliminating rates under the State law.
almost identical with the long and short
haul section, to the effect that no greater
rate can bc CHARGED for q snorter than for
a longer haul in the same direction.
MIR. Allison asked MIR. Brown whether
he concurred in that decision.
Mr. Brown had no doubt that the
courts generally would decide in the same
way.
INGALLS, SARCASM.
Mir. ingalls,, while announcing his in
ten,ion tn vote Tor the bill, made 1t the
object of one of his most sarcastic
speeches, indicating that his support of it
was not from a liking for it.
Mr.. SpoOner was not willing to vote for
the bill as 1t stood, and urged further
effort to perfectit.
MIR. Platt defended the bill.
Mr.: Morgan maintained that all the
prohibtory features of the bill-he did
not. however, refer TO those new otfenses
created by the hill-were fully within the
Jurisdiction of the courts under the COM
mon law now in existence, He declared
thatthe bill was an interference with pri-
Yate rights which were guaranteed by the
constitution. There was no need for any
spasm over the recent decision of tie
Supreme Court. The oscillations of the
supreme Court. its vibrations and fluc-
luatiOns. were not to be followed. He
thought they had better be quiet while
longer under the old regime. He did NOT
find that the country was going to wreck
and ruin because there were railroads in
it. This bill did not mean, and its friends
4 Il I.,Af Nf
interstate commerce. 1t meant TO usurp
power over all commences.
JUST RIGHT FOR JAY GOULD.
If he had the money of jay Gould, his
talents, his enterprise, his am bitiou TO alb
sorb railroads and to put them under
single ownership, he wou Id not want any
better law passed than this law in re-
latiOn to pooling. He criticised very
severely the discretionary powers given
to railroad commss oners to suspend
from time to time the operation Of the ACT,
assimilating 1t to the power granted to
81 Henry VIII. 10 issue prOcamatiOns
having the force of law. The one
was as unconstitutional as the
other. The bill needed revision. ltougbt
to 20 back to the Conference Committee,
and that committee should lake month,
eit necessary, to mature bill worthy OF
the Senate and which would not he a
<8 nd and the railroads on the other.
was crude, lll-iointed, not prop
arded, filed with passion, energy
MI or but with not the slightest
vi :. CoLQUGT's QUANDARY.
AE ,lQuitt said that it was not with
M 1t conflict of opinion that be had
N conclusion in favor OF the bill.
one of The four VINO bad voied
he ginal bill, and II he thought
matter could be Temanded to
hOrlty and State jurisdiction he
te again in that way, but such
ar as sprecuded by the ruling of the
Sui court. Questionable as he re-
gar soundness OF thaC decision, he
shOL gainsay II, buJ should yield
defel % it. lie was confronted Oy the
alter. either for the general govern
ment intervene ard control, or. to SUBJ
rni to be dom nation OF corporate wealth
md power. He chose the lesser OF the
tNoevils. and should vote for the bill.
AT 10 o'clock Mr. CullOm rose to close
the DEBATE.
N RECoMMITrAL DEFEATED.
8Mr. FRYE moved to recommit with in-
atructons.
#Mr. Culom raised a point OF order,
Whch was decided by the chair, that in
Bhuctons we're not IN order, but that a
motion to recommt was.
3tOnsIderabie time was spent in dis
.cussing the point Of order and the Chair
mbn's ruling. Finally the motion to
recommIJ was lost by vote Of % TO 80.
TN vote was as follows:
EAs-Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Brown,
cameron, CBace, Cheney, Evarts, Frye,
6fay, Hale, Hampton. Hawley Hoar, Ma
bohe, Mitchell 0f Oregon Mitchell OF
Rnnsyiyania, Morgan, Morrill,, Payne,
HUI, sawyer, Sewo.l, Sherman, Spooner
an Wlllams-25.
NAYs-Messrs. Allison, Beck, Berry,
bR RcE burn, Bowen, Call, Cockrell, Coke,
Coquitt, Conger, Cullom, DOlph, Ed
monds, Eustis, Fair, George, Gibson,
0orman, Harris, ingalls,, Jones OF Arkan-
eW, Jones Of Nevada, Mcmillan, Mander-
son. Palmer, Plumb, Pugh, Sabin. Sauls-
bury, Teller, Vance, Vest, Walthall,
Witthorne, W ilson of Iowa, wilson OF
NAY land-36.
Pairs were announced between Messrs.
bV ler aud Van Wyck, Camden and stan
lon Dawes ard MaXey, Kenna and Mil
le1 McphersOn aud Voorhees,, and IT was
sAed tiat Mr.. Ransom was absent on
> ac1Puntof illness In his family.
rue REPORT ADOPTED.
pc yee was then taken and the con-
nnce report was agreed 10 by Al yeas
foIp nag. The vote was as follows;
fAaJ Nta.ara Atiigou Hpck Berry.